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- proper noun uncountable an ethnic group of
Nilotic origin living in the Great Rift Valley in westernKenya and easternUganda - proper noun countable a member of this ethnic group
- proper noun the Nilotic language of this ethnic group
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Examples
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Just to be picky here it's worth pointing out that the term Kalenjin has only existed since the late 1940s, when small communities in the Rift Valley started to group together with others who spoke similar languages.
Red Pepper Keith Somerville 2009
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The Kalenjin are the majority in the Rift Valley province FACT!
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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"Kalenjin", who are in fact a British colonial regrouping of seven different tribes, two of which (the Nandi and the Kipsigi) had not bought into Moi's attempted system of ethnic domination and had been labelled "opponents" (and brutally treated as such) * The movement for "democratisation" was so widespread and trans-ethnic that trying to both fight it and fight the old Kikuyu ethno-elite at the same time proved to be too much in the long run
open Democracy News Analysis - Comments Samuel Marete 2009
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He speaks Kalenjin at home, and on campus he mainly uses Swahili.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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He speaks Kalenjin at home, and on campus he mainly uses Swahili.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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In Kenya, where tribal alliances and politics are closely entwined, the violence included reprisal killings between Mr. Kenyatta's tribe, the Kikuyu, and the Kalenjin, of which Mr. Ruto is a leader.
Hague Court Charges Kenya Leaders Solomon Moore 2012
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Former higher education minister, member of the Kalenjin ethnic group.
Hague Court Charges Kenya Leaders Solomon Moore 2012
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Ruto is seen as the political leader of Kenya's Kalenjin ethnic group as well as a dominant force in the country's populous Rift Valley region.
Kenyan President Suspends Minister Facing Major Corruption Charges 2010
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Luckily, Ms Bulinya says, when her boyfriend's father who is from a different ethnic group, the Kalenjin learned his sons had been abandoned, he took them in and has cared for them ever since.
Kenyan Mother Has SIX Sets Of Twins Curtis M. Wong 2011
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The group, which can be seen campaigning together across the country, has been dubbed the “Kikuyu, Kalenjin, Kamba Alliance,” in reference to ethnicity of each member.
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